Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:13:36 -0400 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-11, Mate, Terminal, Gvim Message-ID: <05fccc1437e343765da6f0c944b5b2bf.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <20170725210647.6f4c8fcd.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <a973035703bd510d1226163df5ac9a34.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <20170725210647.6f4c8fcd.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, July 25, 2017 15:06, Polytropon wrote:
>
> 2. Use "su -m" instead, which will preserve the environment of
> your user, and $DISPLAY will be kept set.
>
Thank you. The second option works perfectly well for my purposes.
I had been using sudo su -l for decades on CentOS. It did not occur
to me that the behaviour might be different on FreeBSD. Well, it did
actually, I just could not see how that would affect this.
Thanks again.
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